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Best Cartography Poems

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Cartography
I count the syllables of your dreams,

tracing my way home,

using each one as a compass;

Pulling me to you.

Your tongue outlines this map,

shooting stars into the...

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Categories: cartography, absence, longing, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Cartography
A river threads a patchwork of activity,
Uniting man to nature, his desire,
To commune, make his mark, despite the brevity,
Of each man’s passage from flame to...

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© Desi Gall  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cartography, color, community, history, imagination,
Form: Sonnet
Misguided Cartography
Looking at the stars
We play life's cartographers
Hastily naming
Which ones we're meant to follow
And which to pass in wonder...

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Categories: cartography, confusion, journey, life, stars,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens
"Captive Deep Blue Je Reviens"





I walk beside you 
in your dreams,
you are always in me 
warm and pounding, 
twin heart, 
burning bright flame, 
beautiful addiction
captive...

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Categories: cartography, desire, longing, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Where Is the Lover
“Where is the Lover?”



Where is your Lover?
He is in your smile
where he kissed you
when you were fast asleep
bodies pressed into
burning heat
the fruits of passion 
tasted...

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Categories: cartography, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism



Fault Lines Re-Drawn
There was a great asthenospheric disruption
Followed by parallel volcanic eruptions
There was a great, abrupt tectonic shift
In a moment, a million years of continental drift

The ground...

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Categories: cartography, allegory, corruption, creation, earth
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Element Earth
In ancient Greek philosophy
			and science, Earth was named as one
			of a quartet of elements.
			The other three of great import,
			we're taught, were water, air, and fire.

			The...

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Categories: cartography, earth, history, science,
Form: Verse
Silent Fights
When we fight in silence, like titans abound by egos
An eager poet overcome by words.
A beautiful model delicate as raindrops
When the silence in the room...

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Categories: cartography, africa, devotion, for her,
Form: Verse
Banking
Leaving banking, I am thinking about banking. When the red humour from the human system drains off, we irrigate the haematic fluid inside through vein-channels....

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Categories: cartography, change, character, war,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Geology and the Other Ologies
Geology, geometry, biology, biography
Anthropology, psychology, geography, photography,
Psychiatry, psychometry, cartography, graphography,
So many ol-ogies and og-Raph-ies, so little time.

Yet am I studying any of them?
Not today. Today...

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Categories: cartography, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member secretary
you circle each word 
red, you enjoy 
the correcting -
“read”

the riding crop 
dropped 
words race away
in your inner world

dark stallions 
no bridle nor bit ...

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Categories: cartography, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cryptic Riddle
Frozen in stone a lion kneels in a sandbox built for four,
Guarding a gate to the galaxy which breathes beneath the floor.

Nearly thirty degrees north...

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Categories: cartography, adventure, confusion, fun, games,
Form: Rhyme
An Impermissible and Impossible Thing
Were it not a thing impermissible, 
I'd take handfuls of all these silly bits of 
Simulacra, and detritus, dross and debris:
The minutiae and impedimenta that...

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Categories: cartography, allusion, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Pursuit In Spacesuit
Spacious space I would like 
To have in the space unique
Where none comes to disturb
And never do I will be perturb(ed)
Space travel being my penchant
I...

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Categories: cartography, angel, appreciation, art,
Form: Couplet
Sea of Amoress
Love has us immeresed,
in an endless fathom.
Like tears that fall to the sea.
A symbol of loves' fleeting-
Phantom- 
bemused unto the deep.

Our understanding, 
a shifting current,
carrying...

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Categories: cartography, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

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